Chaitanya Bhagavata

by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.5.54, English translation, including a commentary (Gaudiya-bhasya). This text is similair to the Caitanya-caritamrita and narrates the pastimes of Lord Caitanya, proclaimed to be the direct incarnation of Krishna (as Bhagavan) This is verse 54 of Madhya-khanda chapter 5—“Lord Nityananda’s Vyasa-puja Ceremony and His Darshana of the Lord’s Six-armed Form”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.5.54-055:

বিদ্যা-ধন-কুল-জ্ঞান-তপস্যার মদে মোর ভক্ত-স্থানে যার আছে অপরাধে সে অধম সবারে না দিমু প্রেম-যোগ নগরিযা প্রতি দিমু ব্রহ্মাদির ভোগ” ॥ ৫৪-০৫৫ ॥

विद्या-धन-कुल-ज्ञान-तपस्यार मदे मोर भक्त-स्थाने यार आछे अपराधे से अधम सबारे ना दिमु प्रेम-योग नगरिया प्रति दिमु ब्रह्मादिर भोग” ॥ ५४-०५५ ॥

vidyā-dhana-kula-jñāna-tapasyāra made mora bhakta-sthāne yāra āche aparādhe se adhama sabāre nā dimu prema-yoga nagariyā prati dimu brahmādira bhoga” || 54-055 ||

vidya-dhana-kula-jnana-tapasyara made mora bhakta-sthane yara ache aparadhe se adhama sabare na dimu prema-yoga nagariya prati dimu brahmadira bhoga” (54-055)

English translation:

(54-055) “I will not award love of God to those fallen souls who have offended My devotees, because they are proud of their education, wealth, high birth, knowledge, and austerities. Otherwise I will give everyone that which persons like Lord Brahmā enjoy.”

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Persons overwhelmed with pride due to education, wealth, high birth, scriptural knowledge, and austerities naturally commit offenses to the devotees of the Lord. Since they are offenders to the Vaiṣṇavas, they are not eligible to attain love of Kṛṣṇa. I will distribute love of God that is available to personalities like Lord Brahmā to each and every resident of Śrī Māyāpur-Navadvīpa. The demigods are more dear to the Lord than the human beings. The mundane posts of the demigods are not their constitutional identities. All the demigods engage in worshiping the Supreme Lord, and their superiority and inferiority depends on the extent of their love for the Supreme Lord. The Śrī-sampradāya originated from Lakṣmīdevī, the Brahma-Madhva-sampradāya originated from the four- headed Brahmā, the Viṣṇusvāmi-sampradāya originated from Rudradeva, and the Nimbārka-sampradāya originated from the four Kumāras. These demigods who are sampradāya ācāryas are not devotees of the Lord simply on the merit of their posts. Their worship of the Lord has been

substantiated by their activities as founding gurus of their respective sampradāyas. Although according to the vision of materialists they are related to material enjoyment, unadulterated service of Hari is their constitutional duty. In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (1.8.26) it is stated:

janmaiśvarya-śruta-śrībhir edhamāna-madaḥ pumān naivārhaty abhidhātuṃ vai tvām akiñcana-gocaram

“My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of [material] progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling.” In this statement of Queen Kuntī it is understood that janma refers to the pride of high birth; aiśvarya refers to the pride of wealth; śruta refers to the pride of knowledge, education, and austerity; and śrī refers to the pride of education, wealth, high birth, knowledge, and austerity. Love and devotion are achieved through the chanting of the holy names of Hari. Therefore those with a predominance of pride born of high birth, wealth, knowledge, and beauty do not have a taste for taking shelter of the Supreme Lord by chanting His names and, as a result, do not obtain devotional service; whereas the materially exhausted Vaiṣṇavas who are free from the control of mundane pride have a natural taste for chanting the names of Kṛṣṇa. Proud persons’ natural tendency to commit offenses at the feet of Vaiṣṇavas is part of their inherent charateristics. Love of God is the only enjoyment for personalities such as Lord Brahmā.

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